‘Malign Mudavadi’ crusade is substandard and uncalled for

Kenya: In literary criticism, a writer points out the salient layout of an author’s storyline or plot, the style and content. This is weighed against the social, economic and political realities the author attempts to depict and how successful or not that portrayal has been. But this must be strictly within the rules of literary criticism.

So it is in journalism. One must be clear whether one is reporting, analysing, commenting or making an opinion about an event. Quite often, the fault line between these approaches is not obvious to washed-out journalists. If one sets out to analyse an event, they are governed by the rules of fair comment.